MAB Y CLOCHYDDYN
(
fl.
c.
1380
), a
poet
who is reputed to have been a native of
Llanafan-fawr
,
Brecknock
. Two examples of his work are found in the ‘
Red Book of Hergest
’ and a number of other manuscripts. They are an elegy to
Gwenhwyfar
, daughter of
Madog
and wife of
Hywel ap Tudur ap Gruffudd
of
Anglesey
, and two
englynion
.
Bibliography:
-
The Poetry in the Red Book of Hergest
,
1911
,
1350-2
;
-
Llanstephan Manuscript at the National Library of
Wales, Aberystwyth
133;
-
National Library of Wales Manuscript
4973;
-
Peniarth Manuscript in the National Library of
Wales
118;
-
The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
, , and
, 3
vols., 1801–7; another edn. in 1 vol., 1870. Some contributors
have used the original edition, citing it by volume and page,
others the reprint, citing it by page and column
,
1870
, 338;
-
‘Dictionary of Welsh Biography.’ 27
vols., N.L.W. MSS. 9251–77
;
-
J. Davies
,
Antiquæ linguæ Britannicæ et linguæ Latinæ,
dictionarium duplex
, 1632
;
-
Enwogion Cymru. A Biographical Dictionary of
Eminent Welshmen
, 1852
Author:
Miss Ray Looker, (Mrs Ray Morgan), Cardiff / Rhymni
